Glass painting again!
I've started doing some glass painting again. The first project will take several days to complete and put up. I'm going to add glass paint to every little pane on the front door. Most will be solid colored, but the one in the center will have a dragonfly on it. I'll pick up the colors of the dragonfly in the other panes of glass.
There are 15 panes in the door and the sheet of glass I'm using to create them will only hold three. I am using gold "leading" and it has to dry overnight before I can add any of the other colors. I started with the dragonfly, but the rest of the panes will simply be outlined with the gold and the colors worked in side that border.
I will probably do some shading and blending on the other panes to give them added interest. Glass painting is one of my favorite things to do. The results are beautiful when the paint has fully dried and the light comes through it. It has the appearance of a sort of stained glass, without the real lead and cutting pieces of colored glass.
I've got just about every color of glass paint in the spectrum, and what I don't have I can mix and create for a custom look. That's another fun aspect of this craft.
When I get my front door completed, I'll share pictures with you. My next project will be the area at the top of the windows in my bedroom, so they can have a stained glass transom look.
There are 15 panes in the door and the sheet of glass I'm using to create them will only hold three. I am using gold "leading" and it has to dry overnight before I can add any of the other colors. I started with the dragonfly, but the rest of the panes will simply be outlined with the gold and the colors worked in side that border.
I will probably do some shading and blending on the other panes to give them added interest. Glass painting is one of my favorite things to do. The results are beautiful when the paint has fully dried and the light comes through it. It has the appearance of a sort of stained glass, without the real lead and cutting pieces of colored glass.
I've got just about every color of glass paint in the spectrum, and what I don't have I can mix and create for a custom look. That's another fun aspect of this craft.
When I get my front door completed, I'll share pictures with you. My next project will be the area at the top of the windows in my bedroom, so they can have a stained glass transom look.
Labels: decorating
posted by Ann crum @ 7:20 PM
2 Comments:
At 6/13/2008 1:47 PM,
Anonymous said…
I did something like this with my front door. It was a four-panel solid wooden door and I removed the two skinny top panels and replaced them with "stained glass" in colors to coordinate with the house and trim color, in a diamond and Lone Star pattern I designed, to let in some light and still have privacy
At 6/20/2008 1:56 AM,
Ann crum said…
That sounds beautiful! I've got a variety of flowers and things like that which I see right outside in my yard. My house is unpainted wood so it's mellowed to a silvery color, so the nature pictures work out very well on the door.
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